Unit8 Natural disasters

Comic strip &Welcome to the unit

八 A

To get a general idea about

natural disasters

To learn to talk about natural

disasters

Objectives

What’s the weather like today?

What’s happened to Hobo?

Let’s have a look.

Lead-in

snowy

windy

rainy

•1 What’s the weather like ? It’s raining. =It’s rainy.

• 2 What’s wrong with Hobo’s house ?

His house is wet.

Listen and answer :

Read the dialogue and answer .

1.What was Hobo doing when it started to rain?

2. Why does Hobo come to Eddie’s house ?

He was sleeping when it started to rain .

He wants to ask Eddie to mop all the water up .

mop all the water up 把所有水拖干净

One day, Hobo went to Eddie’s home, because his own home was all________. He was _________ when it started to _______. When he

_________, there was water ______. He asked Eddie to ______home with him because he wanted Eddie to _________ all the water _________.

wet

sleeping

rain woke up

everywhere

go

upmop

was sleeping------过去进行时（表示过去某个时间正在发生的事情）

结构： was/were (not) + doing

rainstorm

[ reinstɔ:m]'

snowstorm

sandstorm

typhoon[tai'fu:n]

lightningthunder and['θʌndə]

Write the correct names of bad weather

typhoon Thunder and lightning

rainstorm snowstorm

Practise

rainstorm暴雨 flood

Sometimes bad weather cause natural disasters .

cause

natural disaster 自然灾害

A flood washed everything away.把 ---冲走

['nætʃərəl] [di'za:stə(r)

]

flood[flʌd]

bad traffic

cause

snowstorm暴雪

thunder and lightning雷电 a big fire

cause

typhoon台风

flood

accident事故

cause

The earth is short of water. It is very dry.

drought 干旱

Some other natural disasters

缺水

earthquake地震

Natural disasters are caused by natural forces.

A car crashed into a tree.

accident 事故

撞上

Accidents are caused by people.

Finish Part A on Page 93.

• Listen then answer questions.

1.What happened to Vivien’s school?

2. Was anyone hurt?

Lightening caught a fire.

Nobody was hurt.

Talk about natural disasters in pairs.

disaster

mop

up

earthquake

thousands of

accident

coach

n. 灾难；不幸，祸患vt. 用拖把擦干净adv.完全地n. 地震成千上万的n. 事故，意外的事n. 长途汽车

Words review

crashflood

wash awayvillage

lightningstorm

thundercatch fire

vi. & vt. 猛撞 ; 碰撞n. 洪水，水灾冲走n. 村庄n. 闪电n. 风暴，暴 ( 风 )雨n. 雷；雷声着火

Words review

Life is beautiful because of the strong will. 生命因坚强而美丽 Life is wonderful because of the true love. 生活因关爱而精彩 .

Thank you !